Despite the doubts and unrest, the steps towards the transition in Tunisia and to the purification of responsibilities of the deposed regime Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will happen. Seriati Ali, the head of security of the former dictator, was arrested and will face trial for fomenting violence and threaten national security, public television reported Tunisian agency and AFP.The former security official is accused of creating divisions among the people, having fostered the chaos and unrest and armed violence have encouraged. After four weeks of popular revolt, which culminated on Friday, without assistance, with the overthrow of the tyrant Ben Ali, yesterday began the road to democracy may lead to important decisions of the Constitutional Council as the interim president's name-the first Mohamed Ghanuchi minister was forced to resign after 16 hours in office, and call for elections within 60 days.
Today, expect a second step, not least the announcement of the formation of a national unity government to end the power vacuum, put a stop to the violence and lead the country to these critical elections after 23 years of dictatorship. One of the unknowns to be clear is whether those who are firmly opposed to Ben Ali can agree on a common project.
Ghanuchi unity government, a leader who, despite her affiliation with the Democratic Constitutional Assembly, the party of Ben Ali, is not among those suspected of having amassed fortunes under power, began yesterday to make contacts to form a unity government national. "Without excluding anyone," he promised in his first public statement new interim president, Fuad Mebaza.
One of the three legal political forces in Tunisia and the only parties with parliamentary representation, only two members, announced his willingness to be part of this government. For now, no major developments in this chapter, except that continue the contacts and meetings and maintaining the expectation that the country has new manager today.
The early signs seem positive, but problems can come up with concrete negotiation of ministries to be allocated to members of the opposition. In particular, Ghanuchi will meet with the leader of main opposition party, Ettajdid, Ahmed Ibrahim, and other opposition leaders, has revealed himself as Ibrahim.
"The main thing for us is to stop all this. We agree on several principles relating to the new government. We will continue talking," he explained. Opponents want assurances that the campaign for the upcoming presidential election is free and there is enough time for her, so they opt to wait about six months.
They also demand greater democratic openness and the system will throw off the influence of the Democratic Constitutional Rally, Ben Ali's party, which operated virtually as a single party. But in a country ruled with an iron fist for 53 years, no organized opposition, no convincing leadership, plagued by unemployment, subject to political upheaval and institutional violence battered now, no guarantee of anything.
The army wins presence Meanwhile, more and more evidence to suggest that behind the looting and arson in banks, shops, stations, prisons and transport of Tunisia uploaded into the maelstrom of change is not the population, desperate lack of resources and the future, but organized militia of the former regime to sow chaos and destabilize the country.
The authorities' argument is that the followers of Ben Ali had become part of the 160,000 police officers who lived by the dictatorship and who see that they are losing everything. A shabby hungry loot a shop, not on fire. A young university student who has gone peacefully to the streets to demonstrate against the economic situation against the dictator first and then do not step on a stolen ambulance to attack their neighbors at home posing as police.
A young woman who aspires to live in a democratic country is not taken on a car to shoot anyone who crosses his path. The night was quieter. Gradually, the army, which stayed out of the protests and is now taking the helm to ensure the security of the country is making to curb the violence and stop the riots.
In a first ride this morning through the streets of the capital, some shops are seen cleansed by the bank robbery and burned, but less than yesterday. In inverse proportion, have increased plainclothes officers and soldiers who are stationed on almost every corner. The military controlled and recorded all bags and cars that get within range.
The streets are relatively quiet., People buying food for the first time in days are commercial vehicles making deliveries. During the night barely able to hear gunfire in the capital, unlike the intense unrest of the night from Friday to Saturday. Today rpimeros were also noted the symptoms of what can be a great exodus.
The security situation has convinced many in the capital that it is best to flee. To protect their families by rioting and looting, thousands of people of Tunisia are fleeing to the south, where there is a smaller military presence. just another big question is what is happening in the rest of the country, which news comes with a dropper and the little that is known is that the army can not cope and its presence is residual in many villages and towns.
These are, therefore, places more suited to continue lighting the fuse of the instability. In this state of confusion, one of the most notable incident is the death of Imed Trabelsi, nephew of the wife of Ben Ali and mayor of the coastal town of La Goulette, who died yesterday at the military hospital in Tunis after reaching gun wounded white.
Imed, who was missing since the president's flight was part of that group of relatives of the first lady who controlled the country's economy, always associated with the regime's corruption and object of the wrath of protesters. A French judge had opened an investigation against Imed Trabelsi for his alleged involvement in the theft of a yacht that belonged to Roger Bruno, manager of the Lazard Bank.
This morning has killed one of the first foreign news which is also the first journalist. Lucas is Mebrouk Dolega, 32, wounded by a tear gas grenade during protests on Friday.
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